CHARLES DI TOCCA
 CHARLES DI TOCCA
A Tragedy

By

Cale Young Rice
McClure, Phillips & Co.
New York
1903
Copyright, 1903, By
CALE YOUNG RICE


Published, March, 1903. R
 To My Wife
 CHARLES DI TOCCA
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CHARLES DI TOCCA

A Tragedy
CHARLES DI TOCCADuke of Leucadia, Tyrant of Arta, etc.
ANTONIO DI TOCCAHis son.
HÆMONA Greek noble.
BARDASHis friend.
CARDINAL JULIANThe Pope's Legate.
AGABUSA mad monk.
CECCOSeneschal of the Castle.
FULVIA COLONNAUnder the duke's protection.
HELENASister to Hæmon.
GIULIAServing Fulvia.
PAULAServing Helena.
LYGIA
PHAON
ZOE
BASIL		Revellers.
Nardo, a boy, and Diogenes, a philosopher.
A Captain of the Guard. Soldiers, Guests,
Attendants, etc.

Time: Fifteenth Century.
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ACT ONE
Scene.—The Island Leucadia. A ruined templeof Apollo near the town of Pharo. Brokencolumns and stones are strewn, or stand desolatelyabout. It is night—the moon rising.Antonio, who has been waiting impatiently,seats himself on a stone. By a road nearthe ruins Fulvia enters, cloaked.
Antonio (turning): Helen——!
Fulvia:        A comely name, my lord.
Antonio:                               Ah, you?
My father's unforgetting Fulvia?
Fulvia: At least not Helena, whoe'er she be.
Antonio: And did I call you so?
Fulvia:                         Unless it is
These stones have tongue and passion.
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Antonio:                            Then the night
Recalling dreams of dim antiquity's
Heroic bloom worked on me.—But whence are
Your steps, so late, alone?
Fulvia:                      From the Cardinal,
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